From asteroids the size of football stadiums to nuclear war and man-made pandemics, it can seem as if humankind is in ...

The most powerful telescope ever launched into space uncovered a cluster of forming stars within the "toe beans" of the Cat's ...

A rare visitor from another star system has been spotted: the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS! It was detected July 1 by the NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System, or ATLAS. Most known ...

In all, there are only 400 known Mars rocks on Earth, comprising less than 1% of all known space rocks on the Blue Planet.

Strange cone-shaped rocks led scientists to the hidden remains of one of Earth’s oldest asteroid impacts. It could help us find fossil life on Mars.

In the almost three years since NASA proved that it could successfully deflect an asteroid, we’ve learned a lot about these ...

What was it like to track the rising danger of this asteroid, and to ultimately determine that it’d miss us? This is the ...

An "interstellar object" is speeding toward the inner solar system, where Earth is located, astronomers have confirmed.

Our planet has been asteroid-smashed, melted and eroded, enough that most of its original armor has been long buried. Except ...

A new interstellar object, A11pl3Z, has been discovered in our solar system, marking the third such object to be observed. It ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has been unwaveringly focused on our universe. With its unprecedented power to detect and ...

World Asteroid Day 2025 is upon us! Here's how you can celebrate the event by livestreaming real-time views of near-Earth ...